The Hare’s Corner, Making Space for Nature By Jane Clarke and Catherine Cleary, illustrated by Jane Carkill New Island, ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - Everyone has a passion — and for Kim Larson, it’s turning blocks of wood into something that dances in the wind. “I blow these up and put them on patterns,” Larson said.

One of the best sculpture parks in the country features dozens of whimsical metal structures created by a man who never called himself an artist. The late Vollis Simpson, who grew up and lived in the ...

Whirligigs from the 19th Century and older were for entertainment, especially for the people who made them, Foster said. They were meant to be left outside so they were "pretty much neglected" and ...

Vollis Simpson (1919–2013) grew up on a North Carolina farm “fixing things before he could read,” writes Boston Weatherford. When an injury in his 60s forced him to close his successful machine-repair ...

At age 95, Frank Murn has the unique pastime of making automata –– small, colorful wooden sculptures attached to pieces of wire that move in circular, vertical or horizontal motions. These wooden ...

Here, a figure sweeps their scythe. And there, they gather fruit. In one, a man pulls a mule with his cart, and in another, the pilot of a flying machine spies on the action below. With turbines, ...